Improvement in boots and shoes



H. RGERS L. FELTN.

Bouts and Shoes.

N0. 135,591.` Y Patented Feb.4,1873.

AM. PHoramHasnAf/flc co. mman/mel; moms) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOMERl ROGERSLOF SUDBURY, LEWIS FELTON, OF MARLBOROUGH, ASSIGNORS TOTHEMSELVES AND STEPHEN MOORE, 0F SUDBUEY,

MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HOMER ROGERS, of Sudbury, andLEWIS FELTON, ofMarlborough, all in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,have invented an lmprovement in the Manufacture of Boots and Shoes; andwe do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with thedrawing which accon1- panies and forms part of this speciiication, is adescription of our invention sufficient to enable those skilled in theart to practice it.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes the supply of leather is not equalto the amount required in their construction, if made wholly ofleather.For this reason', factitious leathers and other materials have to beused to a greater or less extent to furnish stock for those parts whichare required more particularly for filling, and are not exposed towear-wood, metal, leather board, rubber, and paper being used to a greatextent for counters, shanks, heel-fillin g, soles, and inner soles.

Our invention relates to the construction of uppers,or to a method offorming uppers without using leather exclusively, and for this purposewe use leather for those parts of the upper particularly subjected tostrain and wear, and for the rest paper board, and preferably that classof paper board known as leather board. Our invention consists,primarily,'in a boot or shoe having part of its upper made of paperboard.

The drawing represents a boot having the respective parts arranged withreference to a construction embodying our invention, the drawing showingthe boot in side elevation.

a denotes the sole; b,the heel; o, the vamp; and d, the quarter; f, thefront or leg piece; g, the back; h, the elastic between the pieces f andg. The main vamp-piece c, extending over the top of thefoot, and thequarter d, extending around the heel, are made of leather board, but atthe toe the leather board is shown as connected to the sole by a leathertip, h, at each side by a leather piece, t', and at the heel by aleather heel-piece, lc, the pieces h c' 7c forming the parts of theupper most subject to wear and strain, while the leathenboard orpaper-board pieces form those portions of the upper less subject tostrain and wear, the leather board forming a covering amply strong andWater-proof.`

By this construction a very large and important saving is effected inthe cost of a boot or shoe, and the construction is as enduring as ifmade wholly of leather.

i We claim- 1. A boot or shoe vamp or quarter made of leather andleather board, the leather being that part which is to be united to thesole and the leather-board portion being the remainder of the vamp orquarter.

2. Aboot or shoe having its upper made partly of ordinary leather, asdescribed, and partly of leather boa-rd, the leather board and leatherbeing united edge to edge.

HOMER ROGERS.

LEWIS FELTON.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR I. FEL'roN, EDWARD RICE.

